The U.S. has TKD outbreak and religious martial fanaticism. THe U.K. has Systema legions and Wing Chun armies. Australia is apparently the place where ninjas are rampant. Let's all go to Brazil! Capoeira? NOOO BULLSHIDO IS EVERYWHERE

I think only idiots assume that someone who trains for the ring can't make the switch to the street as soon as things change. - dweidman

I am still waiting for Hatsumi to move into the next life thus igniting an all out Ninja war, where all the various factions start hunting each other down in an effort to establish themselves as the new head super supreme Ninja family. I also hope that this war only succeeds in them all destroying each other leaving few to 0 ninjas left.

I'm just curious as to the name and title of the "black belt" that told you all of this. A lot of it is nonsense, and some of it seems to be greatly exaggerated.

It is true that you must have some spirituality to reach the higher levels, but you can earn a black belt without any religious affiliation whatsoever.

The guy that said/did these things was not representing the ryu that I train in. There have been some people that had a falling out and now try to drag Bill's name and the name of the ryu down with them.

I'm just curious as to the name and title of the "black belt" that told you all of this. A lot of it is nonsense, and some of it seems to be greatly exaggerated.

It is true that you must have some spirituality to reach the higher levels, but you can earn a black belt without any religious affiliation whatsoever.

The guy that said/did these things was not representing the ryu that I train in. There have been some people that had a falling out and now try to drag Bill's name and the name of the ryu down with them.

Hi there, so you're saying there's a lot of "sour grapes" out there? Since you explain the OP info as the result of a falling out, can you give any description over the subjects of these falling outs? Promotion/business decisions/jealousy/personality clash, etc.?

[MMA] arguments do not exist, after all, for people to believe in them, rather they serve as a common, agreed-upon excuse. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest and finish finally and infamously as heretics.

The point where you believe in virgin births, people coming back from the dead, living forever, people ascending to heaven, gods that demand appeasement, judge your wrong-doings and reading your thoughts. And if your talking Roman Catholocism then the inquisitions, witch burnings, stifling of free-thought and science, support of ultra right-wing and nationalist regimes, and promoting the spread of AIDS, poverty and overpopulation in the third world by spreading thier doctrines.